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Message 40332 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 9:02:51 UTC - in response to Message 40331.  

Tasks do nothing and end with error after 15-20 minutes.
which is typical for "no sub-tasks available"
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Message 40333 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 9:37:47 UTC - in response to Message 40332.  

Tasks do nothing and end with error after 15-20 minutes.
which is typical for "no sub-tasks available"

Yes, sorry about that. We seem to have a problem with queued jobs: there are two queues for each batch submitted, "queued" and "pending", both of which I believe have a 2,000-job limit. When I submit a batch, recently of 10,000 jobs each, jobs are created if necessary up to that number, to fill the "queued" queue; contemporaneously, jobs are moved from "queued" to "pending" until it also is full. In recent weeks, apparently since there was an interruption to the DNS service at CERN, there seems to have been a disruption in taking jobs from the "pending" queue and allocating them to worker machines -- only a small fraction get sent.
What happened last night was that the current batch's "queued" queue drained, and job allocation from the "pending" jobs dropped off (there are currently 1200 pending and 13 running; in the previous batch 232 are still pending and 36 running!). At CMS IT's suggestion, I've been playing around with batch priority but that's had no perceptible effect. I'll have to just make sure that I submit new batches before the "queued" queue drains -- there's a new batch on its way so things should pick up again soon.
I'll contact CERN again and suggest they restart the Condor scheduler.
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Message 40340 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 14:16:31 UTC - in response to Message 40333.  

Thanks.
It's running fine again.
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Message 40345 - Posted: 31 Oct 2019, 15:31:00 UTC - in response to Message 40333.  

Tasks do nothing and end with error after 15-20 minutes.
which is typical for "no sub-tasks available"

Yes, sorry about that. We seem to have a problem with queued jobs: there are two queues for each batch submitted, "queued" and "pending", both of which I believe have a 2,000-job limit. When I submit a batch, recently of 10,000 jobs each, jobs are created if necessary up to that number, to fill the "queued" queue; contemporaneously, jobs are moved from "queued" to "pending" until it also is full. In recent weeks, apparently since there was an interruption to the DNS service at CERN, there seems to have been a disruption in taking jobs from the "pending" queue and allocating them to worker machines -- only a small fraction get sent.
What happened last night was that the current batch's "queued" queue drained, and job allocation from the "pending" jobs dropped off (there are currently 1200 pending and 13 running; in the previous batch 232 are still pending and 36 running!). At CMS IT's suggestion, I've been playing around with batch priority but that's had no perceptible effect. I'll have to just make sure that I submit new batches before the "queued" queue drains -- there's a new batch on its way so things should pick up again soon.
I'll contact CERN again and suggest they restart the Condor scheduler.

At what point will CERN be able to generate CMS jobs themselves, so you would not be required to submit batches?
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Message 40349 - Posted: 1 Nov 2019, 10:23:22 UTC - in response to Message 40345.  

At what point will CERN be able to generate CMS jobs themselves, so you would not be required to submit batches?

That's an ever-moving target... Every time we think we're close, the goal-line gets moved again. Six months ago, I would have said now. Now... :-(
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Message 40377 - Posted: 8 Nov 2019, 8:11:45 UTC

All tasks are failing with EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS since 6:30 UTC this morning.
Just to make you aware.
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Message 40378 - Posted: 8 Nov 2019, 16:10:55 UTC - in response to Message 40377.  

Please, let us know, when we can run CMS again. Thank you.
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Message 40379 - Posted: 8 Nov 2019, 19:41:18 UTC - in response to Message 40349.  

At what point will CERN be able to generate CMS jobs themselves, so you would not be required to submit batches?

That's an ever-moving target... Every time we think we're close, the goal-line gets moved again. Six months ago, I would have said now. Now... :-(


As you know we run version v49.00 over at LHC-dev (Average computing 58 GigaFLOPS) here (Average computing 312 GigaFLOPS) via Windows OS and the only problem I have had the last few days is that they need to get to HTCondor ping 0 in 15 minutes or less or they end up as one of the many different computer errors.......but once they do get running they work fine even with my ISP bird bath on a pole (satellite dish that runs like a 1995 dialup)

As far as the goal-line is it because we use the NFL version with a cross bar and uprights?
If it is maybe we should switch to that other version where they kick a round ball into a net (or maybe a FT line just to make it easier)

(ok I better get off here so that bird bath can d/l the new tasks in the near future)
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Message 40380 - Posted: 8 Nov 2019, 20:55:46 UTC - in response to Message 40377.  

All tasks are failing with EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS since 6:30 UTC this morning.

Works fine again since late morning.
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Message 40388 - Posted: 10 Nov 2019, 13:37:34 UTC - in response to Message 40380.  

All tasks are failing with EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS since 6:30 UTC this morning.

Works fine again since late morning.

There was a small hiatus switching between two batches of jobs. People at CERN are investigating but no news yet.
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Message 40416 - Posted: 13 Nov 2019, 5:58:11 UTC

All tasks are failing with EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS again?
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Message 40418 - Posted: 13 Nov 2019, 7:17:25 UTC - in response to Message 40416.  

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Message 40419 - Posted: 13 Nov 2019, 7:41:39 UTC - in response to Message 40418.  

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Message 40581 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 4:17:18 UTC

207 (0x000000CF) EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS

since about last midnight :-(
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Message 40585 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 8:27:52 UTC - in response to Message 40581.  

... since about last midnight :-(
what is also strange: was there not deployed a mechanism some time ago, which would stop sending out tasks once there is a problem with sub-tasks?
This obviously did not work this time :-(
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Message 40586 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 8:56:58 UTC
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We are having the same problem with these over at the CMS-dev
(well except mine are just giving me Exit status 1 (0x00000001) Unknown error code)

I suspended mine but I see 207 (0x000000CF) EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS running there

It is friday so I hope we get this fixed before the end of the day.
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Message 40587 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 11:00:25 UTC - in response to Message 40586.  
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We are having the same problem with these over at the CMS-dev
(well except mine are just giving me Exit status 1 (0x00000001) Unknown error code)

I suspended mine but I see 207 (0x000000CF) EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS running there

It is friday so I hope we get this fixed before the end of the day.

There was a problem with the Oracle databases at CERN overnight, which stopped job submission. According to https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/view-outage.do?n=OTG0053449 (if you can reach it) a workaround has been implemented. One of my machines is running tasks but still not getting jobs. Probably best to set No New Tasks until we can verify everything is working again.
[Added] Our WMAgent is down, with a database-connect error. I'll ask Alan to tickle it. [/Added]
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Message 40589 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 12:52:43 UTC - in response to Message 40587.  

OK, we've tickled the tiger's tail and jobs are available again. Have at it!
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Message 40597 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 17:37:00 UTC
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I just gave one a try and still no luck and I don't see any new Valids anywhere Ivan.
(I will give it another try later)
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Message 40598 - Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 17:57:39 UTC - in response to Message 40597.  

I'm having a few ones running for about 4 hours now, so far successful.
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